Ok - I got it to work by changing the line to length >= 3
If I could push the rule a little further, a new rule added is that an
alpha char a-Z MUST be after the period.
thanks
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:11:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This is not working as I expected:
>>
>> if(validate('abc.com'))
>> { print "true"; }
>> else
>> { print "false"; }
>
> It prints "false" (because the length is > 4).
>
>> > sub validate {
>> > local $_ = shift;
>> > return( length == 4 and
>> > tr/.// == 1 and
>> > /^[[:alpha:]]/ )
>> > }
>
> What did you expect it to do?
>
> --
> Steve
>
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